• 23.05.2022
• Categories: Important to keep in mind

Names of relatives

After the wedding, a young couple acquires an additional number of relatives, starting from second moms and dads, ending with aunts, uncles, godfathers, etc. Often, having a small family, without distant relatives, many are lost even in their names, remembering only the closest and kin. But you need to know the names of relatives, and even more so of new ones acquired through a wedding, otherwise it threatens you with an awkward position and biased attitude from the same relatives.

So, let's start in order from the closest:

• husband's parents: - mother - mother-in-law; - father - father-in-law;
• wife's parents:

  - mother is mother-in-law;
  - father is father-in-law;

• parents of young in relation to each other:

  - mother (wife, husband) - a bride;
  - father (wife, husband) - matchmaker;

• young in relation to parents and other relatives:

  - husband (daughters, sisters, sister-in-law) - son-in-law;
  - wife (son, nephew) - daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law;

• close relatives of the wife and husband, in relation to the young ones:

  - husband’s brother-in-law;
  - husband's sister-in-law;

  - wife's brother-in-law;
  - wife's sister-in-law;

  - husbands of sisters - brother-in-law;

• close and distant relatives:

  - sister of father, mother (uncle, aunt) - aunt, uncle's wife;
  - brother of father, mother (uncle, aunt) - uncle, aunt's husband;

  - cousin of father, mother (uncle, aunt) - cousin, uncle's wife;
  - cousin of father, mother (uncle, aunt) - cousin uncle, aunt's husband;

  - sons of a uncle, aunts - cousin, sister, cousins;
  - son of uncle, aunts - cousin;
  - daughter of uncle, aunt - cousin;

  - the children of brothers and sisters are nephews;

  - the children of cousins ​​are cousins;
  - grandchildren of a brother or sister - grand-nephews;

  - uncle of father, mother - cousin;
  - aunt of father, mother - cousin;

  - not the daughter of a wife; husband, stepdaughter;
  - not the son of a wife; husband, a stepson;
  - not mother - stepmother;
  - not a father - stepfather;

  - a husband living with his wife's family is a primak;
  - a wife living with her husband's family is a lotion;

  - very close friends are twin;
  - godparents - godmother;
  - godfather - godfather (for parents), godfather (for children), sometimes - uncle;
  - godmother - Kuma (for parents), godmother (for children), sometimes - aunt.